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Show CHINESE AND FOREIGNERS, The Deseret News thinks the Chinese have ample cause to hate foreigners, and reads a long, indictment of causes why they should. Among these it says "foreign missionaries have operated among them apparently as forerunners' fore-runners' of the invading hosts that have desecrated their graves and appropriated their land for railroad rail-road and other purposes." Of course Fhe News could not help but link the missionaries with the land grabbers. But does not the News believe in Missionaries? Has not Apostle Grant just returned re-turned from a mission among Mongolians? Now as to the past. An American company went there, secured title arid a right of way for a railroad the main thought being to connect "the coast with the interior. Had the plan bren carried out it would have been possible to save the lives of the hundreds of thousands who annually die of starvation in China through failure of the rice crop in some remote province. As it was, when twelve miles of raJH wore laid, tfie Chinese Gov ernment interposed, bought out the company and took up the rails. The News says "foreigners compelled them (the Chinese) to admit opium." The British government did d that about one hundred years ago and it wau an outrage unspeakable, un-speakable, but John was not offended. Rather he bought the opium and has been buying it ever since. The News says foreigners "have taken vast stretches of territory and laid waste portions of the country in retaliation for outrages committed." commit-ted." That has been a habit of nations since the beginning of time. It says "they have outraged their women and massacred their men." Possibly the soldiers sent by the western powers to rescue res-cue the missionaries committed some outrages. This, too, is a rule as old as the world. Thank God the American soldiers were not parties to them. The News says: "Foreigners have forced open Chinese markets while closing their own." We suspect that is not true; it least we never heard of it. The News says: "They have forcibly forci-bly entered Chinese ports while closing their own against China." This is half true. We believe that seven ports of China have been opened to foreign trade, but no foreigner has ever been safe in any port of China except t0, ten miles from the sea shore, and the Chinese were never excluded ex-cluded from the ports of other countries until the Chinese immigrants demonstrated the fact that they because of their training and their unspeakable unspeak-able vices, were a menace to every enlightened enlight-ened country of the earth. Our idea is that the western powers are short-cighted to ever want anything save some general trade relations with the Chinese. Those who know the Chinese character char-acter best feel that way. The Chinese happen to be the terror of this world. They have attributes attri-butes which no generous race can go up against without being losers, without being tainted and when eager Europe desires to partition that empire em-pire and assume control there, those nations do not know the fact, but they are liable to invoke a power that will in turn gr'ud themselves to pieces. |
